19 Responses to We are thoughts

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   Samfoonheei on Sep 11, 2017 at 11:27 am

   Live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive. Every one of us have has tons of responsibilities at each stage of life , this makes them forget the real meaning of living a life. Stay positive and be happy. Our positive action combined with positive thinking results in success. Every thought we think and change it will create our furture.
   Transforming of our mind close to Dharma will lead us a better life.
   I like this quote…….We are what we think.
   Thank you Rinpoche for sharing.

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   Sharon Saw on Feb 6, 2013 at 12:36 am

   Thank you for sharing this profound quote. I do believe that everything in my world is created from my thoughts. It’s quite a challenging concept. And whether I see each day as good or not is all up to me.

   Here are a few more quotes on thoughts by a variety of people from all walks of life 🙂

   We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. ― Albert Einstein

   A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes. – Mahatma Gandhi

   The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow. – Bob Marley

   Our life is what our thoughts make it. – Marcus Aurelius

   Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind. – Theodore Roosevelt

   Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force – that thoughts rule the world. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

   How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state? – Plato

   The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large. -Confucius

   Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power. – Rene Descartes

   The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts. – James Joyce

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   abby f on Feb 5, 2013 at 5:06 pm

   Since I still not able to completely control my mind, therefore I need to act exactly what my Guru tells me. Since from the way I act, I talk and I think would affect my mind, and my mind is the object that creates the world, then it is not about what I feel, what I want to talk, what I want to act, it is about what should I talk, how should I act and think for others.

   If my way of thinking, acting, talking are good enough, then I wouldn’t end up to become who I am now which is not really good. There’s a need to change in me and for me to see things differently and act differently for others. Not just for me.

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   David Lai on Feb 4, 2013 at 8:07 pm

   I guess thats the amazing ability of the human potential and that is to actualize our thoughts and make it come alive. I think we are very fortunate as humans to possess this potential in all of us. I think many people don’t realize how powerful this ability is and what we can do with it. I guess Buddhism is the only belief system that has a very powerful way of looking at our potential for greatness and it seems to possess an unlimited array of tools to work on actualizing our potential.

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   Paris on Feb 2, 2013 at 4:02 pm

   It makes so much sense when we are taught that the most important defining factor in every of our actions is our intention, which of course arises entirely from our thoughts and the mind. New age spiritualists talk often about the power of attraction, manifestation from the mind and reciting positive affirmations to change the pattern of our thoughts. I used to think it was all a little crazy, a bit too much hocus pocus – how could you possibly just become a happy person by talking to yourself in the mirror “I am a happy person I am a happy person I am a happy person”?

   But you know, it really does work! In a Buddhist context, this makes sense when we understand the workings of the mind – how our minds operate on a gross outer level and simultaneously as an inner, subtle level, where one affects the other without us even realising it. So whatever we “tell” the inner mind through our outer actions affects our thoughts in the long run; and whatever we think and believe on a subtle level, eventually manifests and comes through on an outward level, through our actions.

   i think this works in the way that karmic imprints and blessings are implanted in our minds without us realising, which open at a later time to affect us positively on an outward level.

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   Joy on Jan 29, 2013 at 7:48 pm

   If we look around us… basically everything that man created that you can see has being born from a single thought! Hence this wise ancient wisdom is no mystery. If only we stop and look and think, we will realise… even at the moment of time when we wake up… the first thought that arises is what will affect our whole entire day. So why can’t we not have positive thoughts and even if we failed in something, why not instead of self pity, get up and move on and improve. If we keep thinking and saying we can’t then we give out this energy to the universe we can’t… it is no rocket scient and no stupid “secret” from a silly book that is now making tones of money from suckers… it is ancient wisdom and spoken some 2500 years ago from Buddha. So what have we not learn? So it is being repeated yet again.

   I guess this is probably why Rinpoche said that monks in Gaden upon waking they chant OM ARA PADSA NA DHI. Amazing… I will incorporate that in my morning wake ups!

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   Wah Ying on Nov 11, 2012 at 10:57 pm

   Thank you Rinpoche for reminding. We are the product of what we think. Negative, positive, bad, good, white, black or grey…How our world is, is created by us.

   It’s DIY and decided by us. Be positive, be compassionate always, I will always remind myself.

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   Julia Tan on Jul 13, 2012 at 6:22 pm

   It’s our thoughts that create the action and speech. This created the karma which make us who we are accordingly. How beautiful and simple if everybody just speak or act with a pure mind. Everything become so easy, no mind game, straight forward and safe us so much time to think what to say or not to say next, what people think and what need to be covered up.

   Happy when we set ourselves FREE!

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   Lim Tat Ming on Jun 17, 2012 at 1:42 am

   Thoughts are very powerful.

   Everything that we experience arise from all the causes that we had created in the past. These causes originated from all of our thoughts. A positive thought creates a positive action. A negative thought creates a negative action. And finally a neutral thought creates a neutral action.

   Hence it is of utmost importance to generate positive and pure thoughts always!

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    tenzin llhamo on Jun 16, 2012 at 9:31 pm

    I have always believe that. I always tell myself to be happy no matter what happens as it helps me physically and mentally prepared in challenges. When we are kind, people around us will also feel and act in the same way.When our mind is happy, good thoughts arise from it…

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    Han on Jun 16, 2012 at 10:40 am

    心识的转化不是瞬间说改就改得到的，而是需要实践于生活中。最为挑战的莫过于我们长期遗留及烙印下来的习惯和不易放下的自我态度，导致心识难以转化。我的经验提醒我，修行路上發心發愿非常重要，心识上産生正能量无烦恼，这样自然可營造和谐的气份，间接让身边的人也开心。

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    Yoke Fui on Jun 14, 2012 at 10:54 am

    The most difficult thing to control is our mind. Throughout ages, we let our mind control us.

    Spiritual practitioners understand the power of the mind and strive to control this powerful energy that is greater than the atomic bomb. They sit and meditate to harness this energy for the most beneficial purpose. Ignorant people criticize that the sangha are lazy and escapees. Little do they know to face the real demon and take control of it is the most difficult and meaningful job in the world.

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    Han on May 18, 2012 at 1:38 am

    佛说：如果你不给自己烦恼，别人也永远不可能给你烦恼。因为你自己的内心，你放不下。
    我总认为人与人之间的相处，若希望人际关系相处得好，就要把心量放大，多接纳人，多包容人。只要自己的心态改变，环境也会跟着改变，世界上没有绝对的好与坏。

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    lanse on May 9, 2012 at 3:05 am

    “We are thoughts!” It sounds profound. I wish I can one day fully understand the whole meaning behind it.

    From my everyday interactions with the world, I kind of understand what I think or feel will turn into some kind of expression that can affect other people through my body language, speech or facial expression. And people around me will react to that and most of the time, what I receive from the world is similar to what I give to the world.

    So if I decided to see things a positive way, chances are most of the time, the results will turn out positive also, and vice versa.

    This naive me can only understand that.

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    Garrick Zircon on Apr 25, 2012 at 11:08 pm

    Agree! 🙂

    What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. – Napoleon Hill, American author who was one of the earliest producers of the modern genre of personal-success literature.

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    freon on Apr 19, 2012 at 12:49 pm

    Very true, this is the reason i need to learn how to control my unstable mind. From mind control, we control the way we talk, act and
    able to create something good to our environment, to people whom i met everyday, to the surrounding. And, without Dharma,the moral discipline the mind have no source to understand what is wrong and right.The very truth of life. Thus we will only react to what we think is true or what we want.

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    Wan Wai Meng on Apr 18, 2012 at 8:51 pm

    We make the world we live in through our thoughts, now I know why the masters ask us to watch our three doors body speech and mind. The mind they said is the forerunner. It is the one who create our reality for us.

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    keith on Apr 1, 2012 at 10:31 pm

    That’s why Buddhism has been called the most psychological of the world’s religions and the most spiritual of the world’s psychologies.

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    Seng Aun on Mar 24, 2012 at 6:07 pm

    Oh, how true and wise of Buddha.

    With thought…comes happiness and happiness is a state of mind. Everyone wants to be happy, but few people understand the real causes of happiness. We surround ourself with people or things that make us feel good, yet we have not found true happiness.

    The real source of happiness lie within the mind, not in external conditions. By practising Dharma, we protect ourself from problems and suffering. It helps to improve the quality of our life. In this way, our mind can be at peace and ultimately, we achieve true happiness…….

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